Sentences with phrase «called goldilocks»

Before this discovery, NASA had identified 12 exoplanets that are within the so - called Goldilocks zone, the orbital area around a star that could potentially support life as we know it.

Before today, NASA had identified 12 exoplanets that are within the so - called Goldilocks zone.

Likewise, even if a planet orbits within the so - called Goldilocks zone surrounding its parent star where conditions are neither too hot nor too cold, its atmosphere may be hostile to life, a new study suggests.

They found the standard star has about two planets in the so - called Goldilocks zone, the distance from the star where liquid water, crucial for life, can exist.

(Many worlds that reside in extremely tight orbits have been found by indirect means; it is the temperate, so - called Goldilocks zone where Earth analogues might be found that has proved most elusive.)

IT HAS been called the Goldilocks paradox.

It orbits its star in the so - called Goldilocks zone, a swath of space not too hot and not too cold, where an Earth - like planet would receive a similar measure of energy from it.

Call it the Goldilocks Principle — animals can survive and reproduce only if the temperature is just right.

The «Cute Ute» has been boiled down to a formula (we'll call it Goldilocks Porridge Reduction) and you could certainly argue that Honda's CR - V has, historically, had the winning recipe.

Call it the Goldilocks syndrome.

But our problems today are much bigger than that, and I will be concentrating on that mid-rise housing that I call the Goldilocks Density, preferably in Passive.

Call it the Goldilocks syndrome.

Not exact matches

«It's a bit of a hide and seek [as] they're looking for a Goldilocks here,» Mizuho's Varathan added, explaining that a hard - line crackdown on leverage in the system could too - rapidly cool the Chinese economy, leading to a so - called hard landing.

Built by Orbital ATK — which is set to be acquired by defense giant Northrop Grumman this year for $ 7.8 billion — TESS will use what Ricker called a «Goldilocks orbit» to photograph the skies.

Along with the absence of significant inflation or deflation, we're seeing what many call a «Goldilocks» economy.

Governor Cuomo released his Executive Budget last week, and like many years I call this the «Goldilocks» phase, meaning no matter what a governor proposes, it is never enough — some proposals can be simultaneously too hot, too cold, or just right — yet nobody ever says that it's just right at the outset.

And this is just the latest in a series of stunning finds from Kepler, a space telescope designed to search for Earth - size planets orbiting other stars in what is called «the Goldilocks zone.»

Principal Investigator George Ricker likes to call it the «Goldilocks orbit» — it's not too close to Earth and her Moon, and it's not too far.

A solid detection of an Earth - size planet in a place called the «Goldilocks zone» because it's neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist — even if the researchers do use the word candidate to describe a detection with Kepler - catalog - like certainty.

But even if a planet is found in this so - called «Goldilocks» zone, where oceans could, in theory, abound, is there actually enough water available to wet the surface?

Scientists have, in fact, taken to calling this water - friendly region the «Goldilocks zone.»

It's called Gliese 581g, and the «g» may very well stand for Goldilocks.

The holy grail for finding worlds beyond Earth that are hospitable to life has been planets just the right distance from their mother stars where liquid water can exist on the surface — the so - called «Goldilocks» zone.

«This is really the first «Goldilocks» planet, the first planet that is roughly the right size and just at the right distance to have liquid water on the surface,» astronomer Paul Butler, with the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., told reporters during a conference call Wednesday.

In December last year, astronomers in Australia discovered a possibly habitable super-earth called Wolf 1061c, a planet 14 million light years away from Earth, located in what scientists call the «Goldilocks» zone.

In particular, they aim to identify rocky, Earthlike orbs that are the within the so - called «Goldilocks zone» — that is, just the right distance from their stars to have surface temperatures that would sustain liquid water, and thus at least make possible the development of life [source: Borucki].

One of the few things we know about Proxima b, besides that it is a rocky planet with a mass 1.3 times that of Earth, is that its orbit is in the so - called «Goldilocks zone» of its sun: not too hot nor too cold for liquid water, making it a potential host for life — alien, human or both.

One of the things that makes Earth special of particular interest to the exoplanet search is our location with respect to our Sun — the habitable or so - called «goldilocks zone».

By practicing specific yoga poses, we place certain amounts of therapeutic stress (called the «Goldilocks Position») on our connective tissues, gently creating tiny piezoelectric currents that in turn stimulate optimal cellular responses.

We like to call this 2 - in - 1 bag from J.Crew the Goldilocks of handbags.

«We're getting closer and closer to discovering the so - called «Goldilocks planet,»» Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, said during a news conference on Monday.

Call it «the Goldilocks approach,» in the words of RBC Wealth Management portfolio strategist Jim Allworth.

Matthews Asia Dividend benefited from what it called a «Goldilocks scenario» in Asian equities thanks to improving inflationary conditions and «moderate monetary policy from Asia's central banks,» the fund's managers wrote in a semiannual commentary to shareholders.

Most Stray Dogs Are Lost Dogs This girl who we are calling Lady Goldilocks — or, Kitana, if you ask my younger nephew — is the first lost dog I've encountered in recent months that I haven't been able to get home within 24 hours.

I've been calling Bakersfield SPCA each day since we found Lady Goldilocks.

Some, like David Owen, call for really high density; I have called for the Goldilocks Density; the fashionable phrase now is the missing middle; both describe density high enough to support local businesses so that one can mostly get around by walking, but buildings that are low enough that they can be efficiently built out of low carbon materials like wood.

Tall wood buildings are all the rage these days, but this TreeHugger has been wondering if we shouldn't be really be thinking differently about it, and instead of doing technical gymnastics to go tall, we should be concentrating on building for that «missing middle» as Daniel Parolek called it, or the Goldilocks Density, as I call it.

Meehan calls him «the Goldilocks candidate.»